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Senate Roll Call 519, 103rd Congress · May 19, 1994

A bill to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to allow grants to increase police presence, to expand and improve cooperative efforts between law enforcement agencies and members of the community to address crime and disorder problems, and otherwise to enhance public safety. — (SENATE AGREED TO GRAMM MOTION TO INSTRUCT THE CONFEREES TO INSIST ON SUBTITLE E OF TITLE XIII OF THE SENATE AMENDMENT, ESTABLISHING A VIOLENT CRIME REDUCTION TRUST FUND, AND SECTION 2404 OF THE SENATE AMENDMENT, SECTION 2407 OF THE SENATE AMENDMENT, AND THE MANDATORY MINIMUM SENTENCES IN SECTION 2405, ALL RELATING TO MANDATORY MINIMUM PRISON SENTENCES.)

Question before the chamber: On the Motion

66 yea · 32 nayMotion Agreed to2 not voting or present
Democrat27 yea · 26 nay
Republican38 yea · 5 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3355

Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994

Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement — assigned by Library of Congress subject specialists, not by this site.

How this vote is scored

Which tracked issues this roll call counts toward, and which way a yea vote moves a member on each. Direction is decided per issue, because one bill can push two issues opposite ways.

  • Criminal JusticeA yea counts toward “Punitive”

    model(0.90): Instructing conferees to insist on mandatory minimum prison sentences pushes toward a punitive criminal justice policy.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Crime and Law Enforcement

    Axis: Reform-oriented ← → Punitive

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.75) Instructing conferees on mandatory minimums and trust funds is primarily a policy motion without clear net fiscal impact.

    Tagged by: keyword:omnibus

    Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (66)

Nay (32)

Not voting or present (2)

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